Author: Dennis Roberts on
20 December 2010
Leadership must come from the inside out. The more you have your act
together and an unwavering confidence in yourself the more this energy will radiate outward and be felt by those around you.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
13 December 2010
In the quest to appoint women into positions of power and leadership, might we ask the question, are we playing the right game?
Author: Dennis Roberts on
6 December 2010
Entrepreneurs are some of the most challenging yet rewarding clients a professional coach may attract. They possess unique traits and if understood and appreciated can make for the most rewarding coach/client relationship. Many coaches fail to appreciate the unique qualities of an entrepreneur and how to approach the client relationship.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
29 November 2010
Let's be clear – you are a business leader. So, as CEO of your business you are responsible for three key areas: strategy, team building and business development.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
22 November 2010
Every year in AFL football, coaches venture overseas to study the latest trends in sports science, sports psychology and elite performance. Anything to give them an edge.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
15 November 2010
In a highly competitive environment success is paramount. Right from our early education we are indoctrinated to pass exams or suffer the indignity of failure. Promotions are awarded on merit. It's all very quantifiable, vey clinical. We are educated by rote learning. We cram for exams, forget life skills, and forget what we crammed some weeks later too.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
8 November 2010
The one thing that will propel your business forward immediately is benchmarking your performance. You don't need elaborate balanced scorecards. You don't even need industry benchmarks or external measures of success. Just start counting stuff.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
1 November 2010
Time is the only truly non-renewable resource. You can hire and replace people. You can make and lose money. You can invest and divest assets but once a unit of time has gone it's gone forever. Pay people for their time and they'll work for your money, inspire people with deeply shared beliefs in a heartfelt cause and they'll give you their blood, sweat and tears if they share the vision.
Author: Dennis Roberts on
25 October 2010
One of the most important aspects of business leadership is the creation of a strategic vision for the business. Rapid technological change, increasing complexity of the business landscape, global economic factors outside your control all contribute to create a largely unknown future world. So in that context how do you create the vision for your business?
Author: Dennis Roberts on
18 October 2010
The traditional approach to getting the best out of your staff is to prepare functional specifications of the job role and then fill it. And for larger institutions this organisational strategy has been tried and tested for many years. Yet I wonder about this for two reasons:
